Literary Studies and Criticism

Recent movers and shakers in literary studies and literary criticism.

Updated June 10, 2026
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Edgar Allan Poe : a life
Kopley, Richard
Paper Book
A groundbreaking exploration of one of America's most iconic and misunderstood authors Edgar Allan Poe: A Life is the most comprehensive critical biography of Poe yet produced, exploring his fascinating life, his extraordinary work, and the vital...
Ellmann's Joyce the biography of a masterpiece and its maker
Leader, Zachary
Ebook
A Times Literary Supplement Best Book of the Year The story of the most acclaimed literary biography of the twentieth century--an ingeniously plotted, behind-the-scenes account of how the literary critic and scholar Richard Ellmann shaped James Joyce's reputation....
Too good to be altogether lost rediscovering Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little house books
Hill, Pamela Smith
Ebook
Named a 2025 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of the well-known Little House series, wrote stories from her childhood because they were ?too good to be altogether lost.? And those stories seemed far from being lost during the...
Shakespeare and loss the late, great tragedies
Beckwith, Sarah
Ebook
Shakespeare and Loss explores how, in Shakespeare's late tragedies (Hamlet, King Lear, Timon of Athens, Macbeth, Coriolanus, and Antony and Cleopatra),...
Into the weeds
Davis, Lydia
Ebook
An illuminating reflection on the creative process from acclaimed fiction writer, essayist, and translator Lydia Davis "Reporting from the slipstream of her reading life, [Davis] offers less a new way to think than perhaps an old one, pushing back against mechanization and the collapse of...

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